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To put it in perspective $15/hr is higher than the starting pay for a commuter airline/regional airline pilot or pilot flying small freight in the southeast. That is someone with 1-2 years of experience teaching others to fly on top of their $40,000 in certificates. The SE sucks for pay. The people I see with good jobs are those with medical or fiance backgrounds.
Ya, I mainly have a good salary here because I kept my DC salary when I transferred offices. My wife also kept her same salary so we make a lot more than if we had tried to find new jobs here.
I thought that if you are drawing unemployment in California, you had to be looking for employment in California? Are you planning on using it until the time limit runs out and apply for N.C. unemployment? Why did you come to N.C.? Are you planning on attempting on spending your working life on unemployment? How can you get unemployment in N.C. if you haven't worked here?
I am leaning towards this. I need to improve my skills some in order to get a 15 dollar an hour job. If I go out and work 60+ hours a week for 8 bucks an hour this will surely keep me from getting the skills I need. I will not listen to the people telling me to go out right now and get an 8 dollar an hour job. The unemployment is there to keep us up on our feet until we find the right job. Its kind of like if Ken Lewis the CEO of Bank of America lost his job, would he go out right away and find a min. wage job? Probably not
Ever heard the saying 'it's easier to find a job when you have one?". I must say I disagree with your argument/logic. 1. work gives one structure 2. if you have children, doesn't it give them better image/sense of security to see you working. 3. for some reason, prospective employers seem to look at you more favorably when you are working than when you are not. 4. that lower paid job could provide some new experience/skill.
From your other posts, you seem to be focused on giving investment advice on shorting the market.... by any chance, have you been applying for jobs at Lehman Brothers?
Ever heard the saying 'it's easier to find a job when you have one?". I must say I disagree with your argument/logic. 1. work gives one structure 2. if you have children, doesn't it give them better image/sense of security to see you working. 3. for some reason, prospective employers seem to look at you more favorably when you are working than when you are not. 4. that lower paid job could provide some new experience/skill.
From your other posts, you seem to be focused on giving investment advice on shorting the market.... by any chance, have you been applying for jobs at Lehman Brothers?
Its funny that everyone keeps telling me to go out and get a job but yet the same people who are telling me to get a job are the same ones posting about how bad the unemployment situation is here. I just don't get it!!!
Its funny that everyone keeps telling me to go out and get a job but yet the same people who are telling me to get a job are the same ones posting about how bad the unemployment situation is here. I just don't get it!!!
That would them responding to your original statement:
"I am seriously thinking about getting a job but alot of the work is paying just 8-9 an hour."
Which indicates you can find work but it just does not pay you enough and you would rather live off what the government gives you.
I am inquiring about possible employment, I am not saying that I was actually offered these jobs!!!
Re-read your own posts...please. You've made it clear that you will NOT take an $8 per hr. job... so the fact that you haven't been offered one isn't really relevant. Right???
So, what happens when you get fired for taking time off of an $8/hr job to interview for a "real" job that pays what you're used to earning and then you don't get the job you interviewed for? What happens if you take three $7/hr jobs (as one poster suggested) and lose one of the jobs, reducing your income by a third? A person should only take a lower paying job when they get close to the end of their unemployment benefit. At that point, you take whatever you can get.
It's easy for some of you to be critical when you have jobs.
So, what happens when you get fired for taking time off of an $8/hr job to interview for a "real" job that pays what you're used to earning and then you don't get the job you interviewed for? What happens if you take three $7/hr jobs (as one poster suggested) and lose one of the jobs, reducing your income by a third? A person should only take a lower paying job when they get close to the end of their unemployment benefit. At that point, you take whatever you can get.
It's easy for some of you to be critical when you have jobs.
Well said
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